2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer

Tim Jeal

Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist – a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley’s life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of h…

Edith Wharton

Hermione Lee

Ralph Ellison

Arnold Rampersad

The Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932

John Richardson

Thomas Hardy

Claire Tomalin